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Visualizing Linguistic Diversity of Text Datasets Synthesized by Large Language Models

Computation and Language 2023-09-29 v2 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) can be used to generate smaller, more refined datasets via few-shot prompting for benchmarking, fine-tuning or other use cases. However, understanding and evaluating these datasets is difficult, and the failure modes of LLM-generated data are still not well understood. Specifically, the data can be repetitive in surprising ways, not only semantically but also syntactically and lexically. We present LinguisticLens, a novel inter-active visualization tool for making sense of and analyzing syntactic diversity of LLM-generated datasets. LinguisticLens clusters text along syntactic, lexical, and semantic axes. It supports hierarchical visualization of a text dataset, allowing users to quickly scan for an overview and inspect individual examples. The live demo is available at shorturl.at/zHOUV.

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@article{arxiv.2305.11364,
  title  = {Visualizing Linguistic Diversity of Text Datasets Synthesized by Large Language Models},
  author = {Emily Reif and Minsuk Kahng and Savvas Petridis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11364},
  year   = {2023}
}
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